PUNJAB,APR 27: Parkash Singh Badal was cremated on Thursday at his ancestral village in Punjab’s Muktsar district with thousands of mourners and leaders across the political spectrum paying their last respects to the Akali stalwart and five-time chief minister. SAD chief Sukhbir Singh Badal lit the pyre at the funeral held with full state honours. […]Continue Reading
Punjab,Apr 26 : Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday reached Chandigarh, where he paid his last respects to former Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal, who died at a private hospital in Mohali on Tuesday. A video shared by news agency ANI showed Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the Shiromani Akali Dal office, where mortal […]Continue Reading
PUNJAB ,APR 23 : Radical preacher Amritpal Singh, who has been on the run since March 18, surrendered before the Punjab police on Sunday, according to reports. Amritpal Singh is being shifted to Assam’s Dibrugarh, where eight of his aides are already being held under the National Security Act. Amritpal Singh surrendered three days after […]Continue Reading
Punjab,Apr 17: Bathinda Police on Monday arrested one Army jawan in connection with a military station firing incident in which four jawans were killed. However, police has not confirmed the news yet. Bathinda Police will hold a press conference at 12.00. Four Indian Army jawans were killed in an early-morning firing incident that took place […]Continue Reading
CHANDIGARH,APR 12: Four people were killed in a firing incident at Bathinda military station in Punjab on Wednesday morning. The Indian Army’s 10 Corps is stationed at Bathinda. Confirming the incident in a statement, the Southwestern command headquartered at Jaipur said, “The firing incident was reported in the early hours of the morning around 0435 […]Continue Reading
CHANDIGARH, APRIL 12: The Centre has allowed the purchase of wheat from Punjab and Haryana by relaxing the prescribed quality norms for procurement up to 18 per cent against the existing limit of 6 per cent. However, it has imposed a value cut on the purchase of grain. In a letter to the Secretary, Punjab […]Continue Reading
Punjab,Mar 29 : Khalistani separatist Amritpal Singh, who managed to evade arrest on Tuesday, has returned to Punjab and plans to surrender at the Golden Temple, sources told India Today. Amritpal Singh, the chief of Waris Punjab De, was said to be travelling to Amritsar through Hoshiarpur when the Punjab Police was tipped off about […]Continue Reading
Punjab,Mar 23 : Former Punjab Congress Committee chief Navjot Singh Sidhu’s wife, Navjot Kaur Sidhu, took to Twitter to reveal that she was diagnosed with stage 2 invasive cancer and that she was to undergo surgery later today. Her tweets came as an emotional letter to her husband, who is currently in jail in connection […]Continue Reading
Punjab,Mar 21 : The Punjab Police suspects that Khalistani separatist Amritpal Singh might have crossed the state borders after his clothes and an abandoned car were found on Monday. The police said Amritpal Singh got down from a Mercedes and fled to Shahkot in a Brezza. Later, the Waris Punjab De chief changed his clothes […]Continue Reading
Chandigarh,Mar 19: A manhunt was still on to nab radical Sikh preacher and Khalistan sympathizer Amritpal Singh, police has said. “He is now a fugitive and we are looking for him and we will soon arrest him,” Jalandhar Police Commissioner Kuldeep Singh Chahal told reporters near Nakodar in Jalandhar late Saturday night. Chahal said six […]Continue Reading